Winner of the inaugural 'Laureate's Choice' poetry award 2015, personally scouted by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

Taking impetus from the history of how and why elements in the periodic table got their names, Element looks at one of mankind's greatest achievements through the lens of personal love and loss, discovery, feud and wonder. 

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"Brilliantly bold... a collection that is much more than the sum of it's mesmerising parts"
Carol Ann Duffy

"Full of tension and symmetry. They are alive. I certainly recommend them."
Alice Oswald

"Taut, intelligent, lyrical. Rachel McCarthy's poems wear their scientific impulses as lightly as fine linen"
Carrie Etter

"Deftly assembled, easily erudite, wide-ranging, sincere."
Harry Guest

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Limited Edition Postcardsfew sets left!

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Set of three promotional postcards produced ahead of Element's publication in association with Wild Court and the King's College London's Poetry&...Series. 

Front design : combines illustration and extracts of a poem from Element
Back design : postcard style, with full text of poem, addressee box and the stamp the symbol of the poem's chemical element.

Design : www.goldflowerstudios.com

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Articles and Essays

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Recently published

• "Photograph from a Floodplain Near You" Free Word (May 2016)

• "A Different Sort of Provocation"   The London Magazine (March 2016)

• "Climate Variability and Change: Migration and the Changing Concepts of Identity and Home in the Poetry of European Women", Displaced Women, Cambridge Scholars ( March 2014)
• "Weeding Out Success: The Inaugural Ted Hughes Award" (The Bookseller, March 2010).
• "Midas Touch: What Carol Ann Duffy's appointment means for the laureateship" Poetry News, (Summer 2009)
• "Great Expectations for Duffy" (The Bookseller, May 2009).

Scientific Papers

• McCarthy, R., 2015: "Climate Communication: Bringing It All Together" Met Office, presented at Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference, Paris, July 2015
• Met Office., 2014: "Too hot, too dry, too wet, too cold: Drivers and impacts of seasonal weather in the UK"
  
• Met Office., 2013: "The recent pause in global warming(3): What are the implications for projections of future warming?"
  
• Met Office., 2013: "The recent pause in global warming(2): What are the potential causes?"
  
• Met Office., 2013: "The recent pause in global warming(1): What do the observations tell us?"
  
• Palin et al., 2013: "Future projections of temperature-related climate change impacts on the railway network of Great Britain", Climatic Change, 120(1- 2), 71-93
  
• Co-author ‘International Dimensions of Climate Change ; Resources and Commodities’. GO-Science (2011)
  
• UK Government Reviewer: ‘Migration and Global Environmental Change’, GO-Science, (2011)